Saturnin Page #3

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- You get one from the office.

- From whom, if no-one's there?

- No-one.

But they conveyed us here,

so must must be some permit.

Yes, but this is just for the journey to hospital.

That's what ambulances are for.

Ambulance is used for a quick transport,

when the patient is in danger.

- Is the driver a relative of yours?

- No. Why?

I'm still trying to negotiate here.

You might hear someone in distress.

In such a case, pretend deafness.

The vehicle's just standing idle

and the journey takes just half an hour.

This option is excluded. I would have to

register it as the patient's journey.

But then I would be missing the patient.

You'll be the patient soon!

You will be partly in the surgical and

partly in psychiatric department.

Just write in the permit that one of

the parts hasn't survive the journey!

Where have you been? It's going to rain!

- It's dangerous. Will we get through?

- Of course we will.

If this was a film, the bridge would

be swept away by the water

and the flesh splits a hundred years old lime

growing on the river side.

Perhaps you really did kill

that shark.

Once a child, always a child!

I told him he'd catch a chill!

- Like water off a duck's back!

- Right. But what are you talking about?

Grandpa took his raincoat and

boots and went out into the storm.

He's just curious. He wants to see

the competition making electricity.

It's the last straw that

breaks the camel's back.

Well, the bridge is broken.

Cook's on the other side.

This place is suitable as a power

station but not a house.

Milou, Milou, my boy.

What have you got growing there?

Better hold a hankie in front

of your face.

I'm expecting an important letter.

The postman has to get through!

The electricity's not working.

- Someone's got to see to the kitchen.

- I'll go and have a look.

I can't swim, but I had better swam over

the river than having Kateina as the cook.

I'll find some alternative lighting.

Alternative lighting? In this house?

I'm going to make some torches.

It's raining and there's no electricity.

At least Barbora's here.

Miss Terebov permitted you

to call her Barbora?

Don't be silly. She hasn't gone unnoticed.

You take a fancy to twenty-somethings?

You're too old for that.

I bet you that by the end of the week...

- Help! His whiskers are on fire!

- Get some water!

- Not water! Sand!

- Sand!

How would you act, Saturnin,

having received an unusual request?

I am longing my whole life

to receive unusual requests.

We agreed that Saturnin would

pursue Milou relentlessly

on land, at sea and in the air

using any fraud possible

out of revenge for Milou referring

to Miss Terebov in that manner.

Did grandpa really ask Milou

to go out and look for worms?

It seems impossible to go

fishing in a swollen river.

He was not that accurate, but

he said exactly that idleness

could destroy a young man completely.

Chess rules do not permit

long and short castling.

I know! I'll put it back.

I doubt that the young lady could cook.

I've brought you some stewed fruit.

I do not want stewed fruit.

I want to play chess!

Chess requires concentration.

Impossible with aunt Katerina around.

What about a glass of milk?

I'll leave you, then.

- I've got some worms.

- I do not want worms. I want to play chess!

- Check.

- Those are my figures, my grandpa.

- No!

- Yes! The table is laid.

Who shut Milou in his room?

Silence speaks louder than words.

When I met Saturnin,

he had only the best references.

Except for the last one,

which was missing completely.

You either stand too far

away to hear me,

or you stand too near

so that it is socially unacceptable.

Please, find the optimal distance

and keep it. Eh...

Yes, I wanted a rose and

this is a rose in fact.

but totally unseemly for a person of my age

and for the color of my dress.

Simply un-seem-ly!

It's disgraceful serving me

meringue at my age!

No, no! Absolutely not!

The table is laid.

- Lunch was excellent, Miss Barbora.

- You have our appreciation.

- We need food, let's go mushrooming!

- Wonderful idea!

- Easy won, easy lost.

- Go elsewhere if you don't like it.

- Old people shouldn't eat mushrooms.

- Then don't eat them!

- We won't find any mushrooms like this.

- We must split into two groups.

We'll draw for it.

Give me some matches.

Those who draw the same

length will pair up.

And the oldest draw first.

- I beg your pardon?

- Sorry.

No head on mine!

We keep choosing but we still

come back to the first variant.

- No head on mine, either.

- Come on, Ji.

Just as well we found so many mushrooms.

Auntie gave all the food to Milou.

- Don't you want jam on those?

- Did they leave us any?

I sense optimism.

That's a good thing.

How many days do we have before

one of us has to brave the water

and cross the river to get food?

Ji, don't look at me!

3 to 4 days. If we do not eat much.

No need to worry, I've arranged

with the builder

that if the old bridge is washed away

he'll build a new one immediately.

Allow me, young man.

- You did that on purpose!

- I am neither malicious nor spiteful.

Sit on it properly, silly boy!

Only my chair collapses, twice in a row.

And during the night someone's

been moving my furniture about.

I got nearly killed, when I needed...

to go out of my room.

My birch water was replaced

with paraffin!

Someone put a wasp in my boots

and it bit me!

- Wasps don't bite!

- Well, this one did!

People get cabin fever

when they're always together.

Like us. Let's go on an outing

to my log cabin, then.

We can spend the night in the

log cabin and then go into town.

Whoever wants can stay here and

we'll bury him when we get back.

- What if someone doesn't last out?

- We'll throw him to the wild animals.

Or we might directly shoot him.

- Don't know what group I belong in.

- Don't use your tennis as a gauge.

Sorry, I thought you were a robber.

- Get off, Saturnin!

- Sorry, sir.

Why are you fighting?

Who broke that vase?

Who gave Milou a weapon?

Who's ringing the doorbell?

I put a match there so we'd know

when the electricity was working.

- I can hear someone talking.

- It's in Spanish.

I am sorry to say it, but

all the food's disappeared!

Let's ask Saturnin.

We don't bring the servants into this.

But we all pleaded not guilty

and so he's the only suspect now.

Who would suspect Saturnin?

You make your bed, you lie in it.

[a row of meaningless sayings]

Just as long as we don't end up

serving Saturnin.

- No use crying over spilt milk.

- Someone drank the milk, not spilt.

I've got an important letter waiting

for me and we're arguing about food!

I am reporting that no-one has

started building a new bridge yet.

Someone driven by hunger, which

may be rightful, but hardly justifiable,

has eaten all the food.

Do you know anything about it?

- This is getting ridiculous!

- Don't interfere, Katerina!

Please, let me leave now.

Madam Katerina will tell you herself.

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